Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-17
PACIFIC COAST.
Serious Trouble on the
Hawaiian Islands.
COAST STEAMBOAT SERVICE.
Fire at SaeramentO-0cean Race to
the Sandwich Islands-A New
Railroad.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
@SAN FRANCISCO, June l6.-News from
Honolulu, brought here by the steame
Australia, shows that the governmen
there has been searching for and de
tanning arms on the grounds of public
safety. 1t is claimed that the people
have become exasperated at the Kings
action in fortifying the palace walls and
taking in supplies of ammunition, and
shat the American and British residents
have appealed to their respective gov
ernments for protection, aud asked that
a man-of.war he ordered to Honolulu.
1t was even rumored that revolution
had begun. Rev. DR.. j. A. Cruzen,
who has been in Honolulu several years,
and returned on the Australia, said,
"When l left Honolulu on the 7tb,
inst, the place was in condition OF
seething discomfort, but the King had
not been deposed. What has occurred
since then, of course | don't know,
nor do | believe any one else has any
accurate information. Everybody in the
Islands had agreed that some change
ought and must at once take place in
the mode of government. The Chinese,
[ am told, have been arming them.
selves of late with rifles and revolvers.
A rihe-corps has also been organized
by the white population of the Islands.
RAISING THE WIND.
The Chinese are the most discontented
people in Honolulu. There are two
Chinese Companies there. One paid the
King $50, 900 for the opium monopoly,
$50, 900 of which was turned over to the
Treasury, and the remaining $4,000
was retained by his Majesty as "back-
sheesh." The other company also paid
$4,000 to the impecunious King.
AN AUTocRATIc MONARCH.
A bill was recently presented to Kala-
kua for approval, by which regular
civic government was to have been
established. In furious mood he tore
the document intending this radical
innovation into pieces, remarking as he
did 20 "that he would have no man in
Honolulu bigger than himself.
OF the $4,000 inhabitants in the cap
ital, about 5000 are whites. "During
my stay on the islands, said DR.. Cruzen,
81 was pastor of the Fourth street Con-
gregational Church, which was one of
the principal churches the English and
Americans attended on Sundays. have
come to the Pacific slope to remain, and
shall not return TO Honolulu.
WHAT sPREoKELs THINKS.
j. D. Spreckels, President of the Oce-
anic Steamship Company, and who has
not been on friendly terms with the Ha-
waiian government, owing to business
conflicts, said: affairs are almost in the
revolutionary stage on the Islands. The
extravaganza and Encouragement of
King kalakau has created a feeling of
great dissatisfact ion among the foreign
residents, and | would not be surprised
ct some vessel bringing news OF such
state of affairs" "The palace" he says,
"has been barricaded and supplied with
arms and ammunition, and the citizens
of other countries have gone so far as TO
call on their home governments to send
menof-war for their protection" As
instances of the eXtravagaDces of
the King, Spreckels stated that Kalakua
had expended $40 900 on the funeral of
his sister, and $50, 900 in fitting ont as a
man.of.war an old tub of steamer
which had originally been purchased for
$4,000, the remainder having been osten.
sibly expended on her equipment. In
response to inquiries Spreckelsisaid that
that the roads on the islands were in
bad condition, and that the harbor
needed dredging, none of which neces
sary improvements were receiving atten.
ton. He said that in the case of a
revolution republic would probably be
set up.